This text contains spoilers for the second season of pose (FX).
A série pose, shown on the cable channel FX, surprised its fans with the second season, originally shown in 2019. The character Candy, played by Angelica Ross, was brutally murdered in one episode, which left all the other characters devastated.
Set between the late 1980s and early 1990s, pose portrays the culture of vogue balls on the outskirts of New York, a cultural movement led by Latin and black LGBT people. And, many of them, like Candy, only had prostitution as a means of survival – and it was in these circumstances that the character, transgender and black, was killed.
In a recent interview with Variety, Ross said that to film Candy's touching funeral scene, she read, before the cameras rolled, the names of all the trans women killed that year up to that day of filming.
“I took their names to that space [the set] and encouraged everyone to use this moment as catharsis,” said Ross, also a trans and black woman.
Actress MJ Rodriguez, who plays the protagonist, Blanca, also commented on her colleague's initiative. “There were moments when I looked at the coffin and cried,” she said. “It was a trigger for many things that happened to women like us. The scene was difficult to act, even more so to watch.”
